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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-24336

Therefore, when copying an address of an arbitrary length, a buffer overflow can occur.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 59.1%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 59.1%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An issue was discovered in Contiki through 3.0 and Contiki-NG through 4.5. The code for parsing Type A domain name answers in ip64-dns64.c doesn't verify whether the address in the answer's length is sane. Therefore, when copying an address of an arbitrary length, a buffer overflow can occur. This bug can be exploited whenever NAT64 is enabled.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
59.09% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-120
Affected
contiki-ng/contiki-ng · contiki-os/contiki
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%30%60%26 October 2026: 59.09%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 59.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.